Word: lucia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Santa Lucia Lady...
...Santa Lucia Lady...
...Along the road [Carmel-San Simeon highway, opened late last month-TIME, July 5] are the mouths of many lonely and inaccessible cañons which creep away up into the Santa Lucia Mountains. Five miles up one cañon is a large lime kiln deserted for more than 30 years. No wagon road ever went to it. The lime was brought down from the mountain to ships at the shore by a mile-long steel cable. The trail over which I suppose burros could travel is obliterated most of the way. We first explored this...
...brother (who was once accused of kicking a taxi driver in the pit of the stomach) occurred at a family dinner party in Bucharest's Cotroceni Palace where King Carol was making one more effort to persuade Prince Nicholas to abandon his commoner wife, the former Mme Jana Lucia Deletj. Present at the dinner were Queen Mother Marie, Prince Nicholas, Crown Prince Mihai. When Carol proposed a toast to his own red-haired commoner friend, Magda Lupescu, 15-year-old Crown Prince Mihai dropped his champagne glass on the floor. Carol took a running kick at him. Nicholas intervened...
...actually abdicated as Crown Prince prior to his triumphal restoration as King (TIME, June 16, 1930). This behavior by King Carol led his brother Prince Nicholas to suppose he would find His Majesty sympathetic when Nicholas too made a morganatic marriage, running off with a beauteous divorcee, Mme Jana Lucia Deletj, who today is Rumania's Mrs. Simpson No. 2. Instead of proving sympathetic, scapegrace King Carol flew into towering rages about scapegrace Prince Nicholas, and soon the Rumanian Supreme Court decided that the marriage of His Royal Highness Prince Nicholas is "non-existent"' -despite the fact...